Bag-mounting appliance



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UNITED STATES WILLIE A. SHIELDS, or BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMlL BAG-MOUNTING APPLIA CE.

Application filed April 23, 1924. Serial No. 708,328.

e To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, l/VILLni A. SHInLns, a

citizen of the United States of America residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have lnvented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Mounting Appliances,'of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for mounting paper bags on garments such as suits and dresses, where it is a problem to introduce the garment in a simple and easy manner, while mounted on thehanger, into a paper bag of therequisitelength to protect it fully. a

More particularly, my present invention is an improvement upon a device of this character patented tome on May 27th, 1919, No. 1,304,913, wherein I utilized a vertically movable bag mounting appliance. That required more head room than is always available at laundriesand at cleaning andpressing plants and so I have found it necessary to devise an appliance capable of winding the bags on a rotatable spiral carrier with a mounting wire passing through the bag and having a hook a-tits free end for the suspension of a garment hanger. This would permit the bag to be drawn from its curved or spiral carrier and pulled down over the garment.

More particularly .my invention contemplates arrotatable spiral guide for causing the bag mounting wire to easily wind itself through the paper bag so that the bag would not have a tendency to wrinkle or tear when being mounted on the appliance.

My invention also comprises a very simple and effective mechanism for operating the bag mounting appliance.

M y invention in its meter-rod embodi mont only is illustrated. in the acconnaanyiug drmvings which form a part of this specification, and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the appliance ready to have a bag wound thereon by the depression of the foot pedal and the rotation of the spiral mounting wire.

Fig. 2 shows my invention after operation with a bag in dotted lines wound on the mounting appliance ready to be drawn down over the garment suspended therefrom.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Similar reference numeralsrefer to similar parts throughout the drawings;

My invention comprises a suitable bracket 1 adapted to be attachedto "a side wallor mounted in any other suitable manner, and having 'journaled therein a rotatable shaft 2, which is engaged by a coil spring 3 that tends to rock the shaft clockwise as viewed in Figs. 2 and'3. yFast on oneend of the shaft is a pulley 4 having a notch 5 therein adapted to be engaged by a'detent '6 on an arm 7 preferably pivoted to the bracket at 8, but it may be pivotally mounted on any suitable support. The free end of this arm 7 is inturned at 9 and perforated'to receive a flexible cord or chain 10 which'is wound about and made fast at one end to the pul ley 1. At an intermediate point on the arm 7 I provide a connection 11 for a pull cord 12 leading to an operating foot pedal 13 having a hinge14: to connect it to any suitable support, not shown. The cable 12 is so connected relativeto the pivot/points of the arm 7 and pedal 13 that a relatively short pedal movement will lower the arm sufliciently to give the pulley 4: and shaft 2 a complete rotation. It will be observed that the detent 6 will engage the notch 5 to-limit the counter-clockwise spring actuated return of the shaft'2; When thejlever is depressed its first action is to pullthe detent out of the notch, there being sufficient play and slack in the cord 1-0 to permit this and then the pulley is rotated. By releasing the foot, the spring will return the parts to the initial position shownfpermitting the detent 4 to again engage in the notch 5 and. serve asastop. r r

A typical paper bag 15, such as used by laundries, dry cleaners and the like for protecting garments has a small center opcu ing 16 at its top while its bottom is left o pen. I mount on the shaft 2 atthc center a spiral mounting wire 17 having at its free end a hook 18 and fast on the shaft on each side of this wire 17 I mount a spiral guide wire 19. These wires are cross connected at their free ends by a leg 20 which stands slightly spaced below the wire 17 and the guide wires 19 being spaced far enough on each side of wire 17 to form effective guides for the support of the under part of the bag while it is being wound onto the mounting Wire.

In operation, the paper bag is grasped at its top on each side of the opening 16 and the hook end of the mounting Wire 17 is caused to project into this opening. The foot pedal isthen depressed and as 'the mounting wire rotates the bag is held so that the wire coils itself through the bag until its hook end 18 projects through the open bottom of the bag. The guide wires 19 on each side hold the inner side of the bag, which is following the shorter radius, so that it will not buckle or, wrinkle and keeps the bag fiat and smooth as the mounting wire is wound through it. Whenthe hook end 18 of the mounting wire projects from the bag the garment 21, which is mounted on the usual garment hanger,-i s hung on the hook 18 and the open bottom end of the bag 15 at each side is grasped by the operator and is drawn down, stripping it from the mountingwire and causing it to slip down over the garment until the garment hanger projects through the top opening 16 of the bag. For short bags a single depression Oftllfl pedal may wind the bag sufficiently on the mounting wire to expose the hook 18 of the latter, but for full length dress bags it may be necessary to operate the pedal several times in order to get the full length of the bag W01111Cl on the wire.

It is obvious that my present. invention can be operated with very low head room, is compact, quitesimpleand inexpensive in its structure, and is very readily mounted.

Though I have described with great par ticularity the details of the embodiment of the invention herein shown, it is not to be construed that I am limited thereto, as changes inarrangement and substitution of equivalents may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the invert, 7 tion as defined in the appended claims.

through a paper bag and expose its hook to receive a garment hanger, substantially as described.

2. A bag mounter in accordance with claim 1, in combination with guide means shaft between the latter and the mounting,

wire, and means to rotate said shaft.

4. A bag mounter for garments, comprising a bracket, a shaft journaled' in the bracket, a spiral mounting wire fast on the shaft, spiral guide wires mounted on the shaft on each side of the mounting wire and disposed between the latter and the shaft, and means to rotate said shaft and wires comprising a foot pedal connection and spring means to return the shaft to initial position. i

5. A bag mounter comprising a bracket having a shaft. journaled therein, spring means to rotate the shaft in one direction, a

pulley on the shaft, a pivoted arm having a flexible connection to the pulley to rotate the latter against the action of said spring, a foot pedal operating means for said pivot arm, a spiral mountin: Wire fast on the shaft at its center, spira I guide Wiresfast on the shaft on each side of the mounting wire and cross connected at their free ends, a hook at the free end of the mounting wire, and stop means to limit the spring return if the shaft.

6. A bag mounter according to claim 5, in which the stop means is formed by ccracting elements on I the; pulley and its operating arm.

7. A bag mounter in accordance with claim 5, in which the pulley operating arm is pivotally mounted in the shaft supporting bracket. I

In testimony whereof I aflix'my signature;

WILLIE A; SHIELDS. \Vitness: Y

NQMIE WELSH. 

